Courage Quotes

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.

~ Scott Walker

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

~ William Butler Yeats

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

~ Chesty Puller

As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

~ Susana Martinez

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

~ Alan Cohen

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

~ Samuel Johnson

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

~ Joseph Conrad

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

~ Dianne Feinstein

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

~ Harold Prince

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

~ Thomas S. Monson

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

~ Loretta Young

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

~ Alexander The Great

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

~ David Ben-Gurion

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

~ Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

~ Jim Davis

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

~ Mark Twain

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

~ Harry S Truman

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

~ Dale Carnegie

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

~ Martin Luther King

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

~ George S. Patton

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

~ Natalie Dormer

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

~ Aristotle

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

~ Publilius Syrus

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

~ Gabby Douglas

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

~ Grace Paley

Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

~ Rudy Giuliani

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

~ Publilius Syrus

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

~ Charles Kennedy

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

~ Thomas J. Stanley

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

~ Alan Autry

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

~ Jesse Jackson

I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.

~ Shirley Chisholm

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

~ Shiv Nadar